Rapid diagnostic test offers cost-effective solutions

Christopher Chew MORU shows that a #RapidDiagnosticTest could improve diagnosis and treatment in #NonMalarial febrile illnesses in rural Cambodia and Bangladesh

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A recent study in The Lancet Reg Health-Southeast Asia by MORU researchers including Christopher Chew shows how a presumptive #LateralFlow rapid #diagnostic test could improve diagnosis and treatment in #NonMalarial febrile illnesses in 🇧🇩 and 🇰🇭.

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What happens when you conduct a country-specific decision tree model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of lateral flow rapid diagnostic test LF-RDT in Cambodia & Bangladesh fr a health system perspective & consider cost of #AMR ? bit.ly/4ayPIiE

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How long should we follow patients in clinical trials? This meta-analysis of disease relapse cases suggests that the period could usefully be extended beyond the usual 6 months for visceral #leishmaniasis .

Read in The Lancet Reg Health-Southeast Asia ➡️bit.ly/3U9tJst

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How can we prevent substandard & falsified (SF) vaccines from threatening our vaccines' effectiveness? Could widely available rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) be repurposed to screen for falsified (ie counterfeit) vaccines in supply chains? Find out!
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Research Highlight from Christopher Chew MORU

Cost-effectiveness analysis of a multiplex lateral flow #RapidDiagnosticTest for acute non-malarial febrile illness in rural Cambodia and Bangladesh

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New test, CRISPR-BP34, diagnoses patients w often-fatal tropical disease melioidosis (caused by B pseudomallei bacteria) in hours, not days as w current bacterial culture methods, so patients could receive the correct, life-saving antibiotics faster.
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#ScienceReadForSunday : Identification of trans-genus biomarkers for early diagnosis of intestinal #schistosomiasis and progression of gut pathology in a mouse model using metabolomics
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